Author: Elliott Leyton, Greg Locke (Photographer)
Translator: Eun-young Park
Publisher: Umuri Inneunjip
248 pages | 217*150mm
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About This Book
When the rapes and massacres, the plagues, the famines, the floods, or the
droughts erupt in far-off places, the world stands still. MSF does not.
They are the "smoke jumpers" among international aid organizations. While others
are often stymied or delayed by bureaucratic red tape, the men and women of
Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) move in. They provide
food and clean water. They dig latrines. They set up first-aid stations and
field hospitals. They treat all-comers according to need. Often they are the
last to remain in situations abandoned by others as too dangerous.
The risks they take are moral and ethical as well as mortal. They are acutely
aware that giving aid is controversial. Does it really do any good to save a
child from murder one day when it will probably starve in the weeks ahead? Is it
appropriate to bring expensive western medicine into a country that, in the long
run, can't afford it? Should relief be given to civilians who are being starved
on purpose, as part of a cynical political game, by a local warlord?
Elliot Leyton and Greg Locke saw something of the implications of these and
other questions when they travelled to Rwanda in the fall of 1996. There they
found themselves plunged into a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.
Hundreds of thousands of people were on the move. Armed militias and hostile
armies lurked in the background. Mass starvation, plague, and an eruption into
civil or criminal violence were immediate possibilities. The two Canadians, one
an internationally recognized expert on the psychology of killing, the other an
experienced photo-journalist, had a rare opportunity to observe MSF in action at
a time when the stress was enormous and its resources were stretched to the
limit.
They watched and listened, to the perpetrators of violence and their victims, to
the survivors and those who gave them assistance, and, above all, to the people
of MSF who dedicate themselves to saving lives because, in the words of one
MSFer: "The world can afford a humanitarian ideal."
The result of Leyton and Locke's research is an extraordinary written and visual
record of small miracles performed in the midst of catastrophe.
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